Friday, February 8, 2013
Ending Passage
The novel ends with a chilling passage, wherein Clover notices something odd about the humans and pigs meeting in the farmhouse: "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. What is Orwell saying here? How do you interpret this final scene?
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Orwell is saying that the pigs have finally become unindentifiable in the presence of other humans and vice versa. The pigs have become completely humanlike and are beastly. As the humans and pigs bicker and argue, the farm animals can't differentiate the two because of their behavior.
ReplyDeleteThis is also what I believe.
DeleteHe is saying that everything is getting confusing anf all the argueing they cant tell which is human or which is pig
ReplyDeletei just dont understand how a pig can talk to a human in the first place..... but the pigs are acting like the humans because of the authority that they have over the other animals. seeing the power that they have they inhabit the human characteristics.
ReplyDeleteWhile the pigs change in many ways, it is not moving into the house, or wearing clothes, or walking on two legs that makes them like the humans – it is the abuse of their power.
ReplyDeleteI believe they are abusing their power also.
DeleteHe is trying to say that the pigs have ultimately become one in the same with humans. Their views were the same as humans and also their actions. The pigs have become savage beasts just like the humans.
ReplyDeleteThe pigs have taking control of the farm the act as if they were humans in the novel. They moved in to houses and did things like humans. but i think they abuse there power also
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